Somehow telling airlines to fly what might
be quite a bit longer, in order to avoid
all the different contrail potenial spot,
that will use even more fuel
migth nto be a popoular sell?
Due to the current war airplanes from Northern Europe to Asia are already re-routed, increasing travel time from Helsinki to Japan, for example, from previously some 9.5 hours to up to 13.5 hours.
> The Biden administration decided that the best way to fight inflation was to invent a giant pile og money and hand it out
Can you provide some references for your claim? IIRC, under Biden, inflation was stoked by the Covid stimulus(arguably necessary to avoid rapid deflation due to Covid, but probably kept for too long) and the Fed moved pretty decisively in the second half of the Biden presidency to raise interest rates rapidly to combat inflation. FWIW, the inflation issue seemed to be under control and heading in the right direction before the administration changed.
> IIRC, under Biden, inflation was stoked by the Covid stimulus(arguably necessary to avoid rapid deflation due to Covid, but probably kept for too long)
Regrettably, everyone more or less memory-holed this. Biden is held responsible for all the bad things that happened because of COVID, and Trump escapes any blame whatsoever despite, yknow, advocating for bleach injections or whatever that was.
I may end up working some more on it and releasing updated versions of the torrent. But I'm not going to be a 'maintainer', if I want unpaid work I'll volunteer at the local animal shelter instead.
I have never given this a lot attention.
I learned a few things from the post and
I am always grateful for that.
One question that popped into my head is
that with that having a fleet that big
the company must be rather vulnerable if
the number of packages decreases significantly
over even a small amount of time.
Operating a fleet like that, and probably have
lot of flights that cannot be canceled, to save
money, given the propagation problems that would
create downstream.
In a highly improbable hypothesis of a day without
any package at all, the cost must be in the two digit
millions
I dont think there is ever a day without packages but there
are slow days and incredibly busy days.
It seems to me that the activity will just be continued.
For some reason Finland didn't want to runt it anymore and
Norway took over.
"""The Finnish Meteorological Institute is to discontinue its air monitoring in Svalbard, and on October 1st, the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) will take over ownership of its air sampling equipment."""
The biggest killer are all the specific changes each city decides they need.
If a standard feature set could be achieved mass production would be easier to arrange.
Perhaps with a module system to remove or add some subset of feature that are easily to adapt to it.
The 80% of federal funding¹ should be based on a "universal common standard",
and cities pay 20% plus the city pays 100% for various customisations they
need.
¹ I have not made any effort to verify this data but it's in hte article. It seems more generous than the federal government tend to be.
Similar to another comment here: the principle agent issue here is the person designing the spec for busses is not the person paying for the buses. If it was the case then the market would settle on a common standard as everyone seeks the lowest price.
Whenever someone creates a "better and lightweight" successor to latex
they will over time be asked to, or by themselves need to add another
small feature to extend its capabilities will over time move closer and closer to the LaTex features set.
Or someone will use it and create a large document and find that Typst
just does not have enough features they need, they will get frustrated
and feel the need to move over to Latex.
Just like the original markup definition was fine, but then we have a forrest over forks or similar projects that add specific features someone needed.
That said if your needs are covered by Typst it's certainly easier to learn.
I would say that it is the most complete typesetting system out
there that I know about¹
It is not the optimal system that could possibly be created.
for many reasons.
However as people design new typesetting systems or various kinds,
and they make it the priority for it to be simple.
Then usually over time users become restless because the
markup langauge misses a typesetting feature they would like.
And we wee a plethora of markup forks of all sorts that include
one set of typesetting additional features that the authors
deemed nessescary.
The more you devlelop an alternative typesetting system, eventually
you will need features that are all already included in TeX.
and they are included because they were needed in an advanced
typesetting system that would give people the tool needed to
highly polished outputs.
But TeX is not a system for the masses, nor was it ever meant to be.
¹(There may be systems just as good used by print media)
Yeah sure that will happen in the real world
It is of Apples most lucrative markets.
I fully understand their frustration but
I sincerely doubt that their shareholders
will accept it.
Doing it for a week, perhaps, to make a point
and see if EU caves from it, which I dont
see happening either.
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